Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flaws were seldom of this magnitude, however, and were never great enough to destroy the very musical and energetic total effect. The audience gave such an ovation that the first chorus was repeated...
...going to destroy the republic," Cannon said in a floor speech, if the postmaster general carries out his threat to curtail mail services drastically for the balance of the fiscal year...
...erupted. Storming the gallery, a band of young, self-styled "reactionary nihilist intellectuals" who call themselves the Jarivistes flung handbills riotously into the gallery. "We Jarivistes advise the Dadaists, surrealists and consorts that the reign of minus is over . . . Long live poetry!" Then, grabbing Object to Destroy, they were gone-but with Dadaist Man Ray puffing after them, crying: "They're stealing my painting!" Not far from the gallery, the Jarivistes stopped and set down the one-eyed metronome. One of them hauled out a pistol, took aim and fired, destroying Object to Destroy. At that point the police...
Tearing Up Children. Shortly before his death in 1953, his tall, thin body wracked by the palsy of a nerve-muscle disorder, O'Neill made an agonizing decision: he would destroy the cycle's six unfinished plays so that no writer could draw conclusions from his beginnings. One manuscript was spared-A Touch of the Poet, which O'Neill thought was ready for the stage. "We tore them up, bit by bit," his wife later recalled. "He could tear just a few sheets at a time. It was like tearing up children...
...Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture was on its long day's journey into night-and suggested mostly pleasure to ease...